The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-04-22

resents the assets; liabilities unknown.
MICHIGAN salt manufacturers are C0nsid-
erably depressed owing to the outlook, -
the present freight charges are 20 high that
little profit 10 to be made.
| A HEAVY fall Of snow in Central New
Mexico ON the 18th put the ground in fine
condition for spring planting. The pro-
tracted dry spell had alarmed the farmers
and stockmen. Stock Is still in fair condi-
| ton but was beginning to suffer from the
drouth.
The Jury in the case Of John B. Mannix,
formerly assignee Of Archbishop Purcell,
Of Cincinnati, charged with embexzlement,
were discharged recently, being unable to
agree.
TIE three constitutional amendments,
voted on in California, were all defeated.
The first provided q method for the selec
ton Of Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court;
the second for an increase Of salaries OF the
Supreme Judges, and the third, cities over
10000 population to be empowered to make
their own city charter. The proposed new
charter for San Francisco was also de-
| feated.
ELIJAH WATERS and T. Wagner engaged
in q bare knuckle fight at Napa, Cal. the
other night In the first round Waters was
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and remained SO until he died.
McGRArH's wall paper warehouse, Chi
cago was burned early on tho morning Of
the 18th. Two firemen lost their lives. The
loss Of property amounted TO 600, 900.
The Southern and Central Pacific rail-
road stockholders at . meeting in tan
Francisco recently reelected their old
officers.
GEORGE WARNER, teacher Of Williams
burg, Wis, killed . refractory popil named
Rugsbusch BY . too severe punishment.
Warner fed.
the journeymen tailors Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, have struck because the masters re-
| fuse to sign IN agreement with new sched-
ule Of prices inserted.
TEE strike OF the architectural ironwork-
ers of Cincinnati has resulted in compr0-
mise and the men have returned to work.
the remains of President Lincoln were
taken from their secret resting place and
| inferred in the north vault Of Oak Ridge
Cemetery at Springfield ILL.,, April IA, the
twenty second anniversary OF his assassin
alton.
A ROCK slide occurred in the deep cut on
the works Of Kyner, Higbee and Bernard
on the Midland grade, near Buena Vista,
Cal, on the 18th, in which ten men were
killed and several more or less injured.
A. j. CHAPMAN, wealthy farmer Of
Holmes County, O., was burned to death
the other day while burning brush.
ABOUT twenty five creditors of Clapp &
Davis, wholesale jewellers, who failed for
$3.50, 600, held an indignation meeting at
Chicago on the 18th, at which there were
many angry limitations that the firms al
legged collapse was barefaced swindle.
ATERRIBLE thunder and hail storm passed
over Niles, o.. on the 18th. Mrs. Michael
Maloney, aged forty, was struck dead by
lightning while standing at an upstairs
window.
Two hundred furnacemen in the Union
Steel Company's works, Chicago, have
struck against the Poles employed as labor
ers.
A TORNADO ravaged ST. Clairsville, O., on
the 18th, extending nearly to Wheeling, W.
Va. At st. Clairsville the damage was put
at 800 600.
The Board of Trade Of Indianapolis, Ind,
has adopted a strong protest against the
Interstate Commerce law as at present con-
strued, and especially appealing to the
commission against the haul section.
THE SOUTH.
A NEGRO living near Greenville, Ala,
| went away the other night leaving five
| children, the oldest ten years of age, locked
up in a house. While he was absent the
| house caught fire and the children were all
burned to death.
GOVERNOR Ross, of Texas. has vetoed the
| bill which postponed for one year the col
lection of taxes in the drought district, en-
bracing seventy counties.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire ravaged st. Angus
tine, Fla, on the 18th. The st. Augustine
Hotel and the old Spanish cathedral were
destroyed as well as other buildings. Bird
get Barry lost her life in the flames. The
loss amounted to S25O,OO0.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, so it is announced
from Atlanta, Ga, has accepted an invita-
ton to attend the Piedmont fair in that city
| in October.
AN armed mob from Union County
stormed the Jail at Ripley, Miss, and shot
| to death, while in his cell. Bud Williamson,
charged with killing John Collins, in self
defense, at New Albany, about year ago.
On the Louisville race track recently one
| Of the horses was killed and his jockey IA
| tally injured.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred the other
evening on the Ohio road six miles below
Ravenswood, W. Va John Holden, of
Belpre, O., and Joe Reeves, Q laborer, Of
Clifton, w. Va, were killed and Robert
Evans, engineer, of Chillicothe, was badly
| injured. Several others were more or less
severely injured. The tender jumped the
track, throwing the cars over bank.
| ADvICEs from different sections in Texas
Of the 18th note the fall of copious rains
| for $40 miles along the Texas 4 Pacific rail-
road west of Merkel and in the country
north Of that road. In many places in
Texas rain had not fallen for nearly year.
The Memphis 4 Little Rock railway was
sold in Little Rock on the 18th at auction
and was bid in by the present controllers
for 81, $50
| The heirs Of the late Hon. Allen T. Cap
erton, of Parkersburg, w. W., have been
put in possession of 64.OOO acres Of land
in Webster County, West Virginia, by the
| United States Court.
DR. E. N. MACON, of Fort Smith, Ark,
| killed his patient, William Perry, recently,
| by a heavy dose of morphine and chloro-
form.
ATEMroRARY injunction has been granted
at New Orleans against the American Cot
ton Oil Trust Company, the same being
considered monopoly illegally organized.
JOHN CHRISTIAN, brother of James Christ
ian, who was killed q few days ago near
Pottsboro, Tex, organized posse Of twelve
or thirteen to hunt the murderers down.
Alexander Duzan and Steven Russell, the
two men who killed Christian, and Lutterel,
were killed, making four lives lost. Further
bloodshed was expected.
A FIRE the other night at Onancock, Ac-
comack County, Va, destroyed most Of the
business portion Of the town. Twenty
three houses, including the Grand Central
Hotel, post-ofice and . number Of business
houses were burned Loss, $4,000; insur-